Meta will launch Threads, the Twitter competition, on July 6

“Threads is the space where communities come together in various discussions, from the topics that interest you today to those that will trend in the future,” reads the description of the application.

One of the features that stands out in this section is the ability to connect directly with the Instagram creators that you already follow or it will be possible to create a new account to renew the people from whom you receive information. At this time it is already possible to pre-download the app and it will appear on the device when it is launched.

The interface for viewing and posting will be similar to Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky, according to the images. Additionally, Meta reported last month at an employee meeting that Threads will be integrated with the decentralized social networking protocol, ActivityPub.

These news about the new Meta platform come a few days after Twitter placed limits on the number of posts that can be read in a day. Elon Musk initially said that tweets would be 600 a day for unverified users, but after complaints, he increased the limit to 1,000, while those who paid for Twitter Blue would have greater access.

These measures have hurt users of other tools like TweetDeck, which media professionals often use to monitor posts, as the view limit significantly disrupted their work.

Musk blames AI and criticizes Threads

The changes in Twitter, according to the owner of the social network, Elon Musk, correspond to the intrusion of large language models, because according to the businessman, they enter social networks to obtain data and train intelligence systems. Artificial, like ChatGPT.

After the first images of Threads were posted, Musk quickly turned to criticizing the app for the data it collects from users. “Thank God they’re run so sanely,” he said, while Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sarcastically noted: “All your threads belong to us.”

The application will collect user information such as health and condition data, financial information (it will not steal it, but will use it to make in-app purchases), user content, browsing and search history, location, contacts and private information. , among other data.